Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges (1869) |
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... kind are hieroglyphics and gestures , of the lat- ter , the real characters above mentioned . The use of hieroglyphics is very old . When Periander , being consulted how to pre- serve a tyranny , bade the messenger follow him , and went ...
... kind are hieroglyphics and gestures , of the lat- ter , the real characters above mentioned . The use of hieroglyphics is very old . When Periander , being consulted how to pre- serve a tyranny , bade the messenger follow him , and went ...
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... kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . " Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation . Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this ...
... kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . " Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation . Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this ...
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... kind . As a specimen of extravagance , take the following description of a Yankee written by an American poet : " He would kiss a queen till he'd raise a blister , With his arm round her neck and his old felt hat on ; Salute a king with ...
... kind . As a specimen of extravagance , take the following description of a Yankee written by an American poet : " He would kiss a queen till he'd raise a blister , With his arm round her neck and his old felt hat on ; Salute a king with ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | ix |
PART I | xii |
CHAPTER PAGE I General Expression of Thought and Feeling 17 | xvii |
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abound Allegory allusions ancient Anglo-Saxon language antith antithesis arguments beautiful become Bible called CHAPTER character common comparison composition convey cultivated Daniel Webster Demosthenes described discase effect Elocution eloquent emotion employed English language Erastus Otis Haven essay expression fact fancy feeling figure of speech frequently give Grammar Greek guage hearer heaven Hyperbole idea illustrate impression instance Invention Irony kind Latin learned literally living long sentence meaning mental metaphor metonymy mind modern moral narrative nature never number of words object observe orator oratory original PARONOMASIA passion person Personification perspicuity poet Poetry practice present productions proverb Quintilian Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetoric Rufus Choate says sense Shakspeare signification sometimes soul sound speak speaker specimens style SYNECDOCHES taste thee thing thou thought tion tropes truth uttered variety verse voice Webster writing written